The public health benefit and burden of mass drug administration programs in Vietnamese schoolchildren: Impact of mebendazole.

• Principais autores: Sam Debaveye (Autor), Claudia Virginia Gonzalez Torres (Autor), Delphine De Smedt (Autor), Bert Heirman (Autor), Shane Kavanagh (Autor), Jo Dewulf (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Mass anthelmintic drug administration is recommended in developing countries to address infection by soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH). We quantified the public health benefit of treatment with mebendazole in eight million Vietnamese children aged 5-14 years from 2006 to 2011. This was...